Società Europea Veicoli Leggeri Sevel

Società Europea Veicoli Leggeri Sevel
legal form	Società per Azioni
founding	1978
Seat	Atessa , Chieti Province , Italy
Number of employees	~ 6400
Branch	Manufacture of commercial vehicles and mobile homes

The Società Europea Veicoli Leggeri Sevel SpA ( European Society for light commercial vehicles ), also known as Sevel Sud is one since 1978 existing joint venture of Italian Fiat Auto SpA and the French PSA Peugeot Citroen SA for production of light commercial vehicles . At the time, the negotiations were conducted by the managing directors Umberto Agnelli from Fiat and Jean Paul Parayre from the PSA group. The stake in the company was 50 percent each for both companies.

Around 6,400 people are employed on the 1.2 square kilometer factory site in Atessa (as of 2019). The production output in 2018 was 296,000 vehicles. According to Sevel, this makes it the largest plant for the production of light commercial vehicles in Europe. It is also one of the largest companies in Abruzzo .

The activities in the Italian plant include the manufacture of light commercial vehicles such as buses , panel vans and flatbed trucks, as well as mobile homes . Vans for Fiat, Citroën and Peugeot of almost identical construction are manufactured. From 1984 to 1994 the Alfa Romeo AR 6 and Talbot Express (type 280/290) , identical in construction to the Fiat Ducato at the time, were also produced.

While Fiat terminated the French-producing cooperation Société Européenne de Véhicules Légers , also known as Sevel Nord , in 2012 and PSA was able to win Toyota as a new cooperation partner for Sevel-Nord, the cooperation in Italy for development and production will continue.

In 2015, Sevel Sud produced the five millionth vehicle. The six millionth vehicle, a Fiat Ducato Natural Power , rolled off the assembly line in 2018.

Model overview

Illustrated timeline of the SEVEL Eurobus models since 1981
	1st generation													2nd generation												3rd generation
	Type 280									Type 290				Type 230								Type 244				Type 250								Type 290
	1980s									1990s										2000s										2010s
	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	0	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	0	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	0	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9
					AR6 04/1985 to 12/1989
	C25 07/1981 to 08/1990										C25 08/90 - 03/94			Jumper / Relay 02/1994 to 04/2002								Jumper / Relay 04/2002 to 04/2006				Jumper / Relay 04/2006 to 05/2014								Jumper / Relay since 05/2014
		Ducato 01/1982 to 08/1990								Ducato 03/1989 to 05/1994				Ducato 03/1994 to 04/2002								Ducato 04/2002 to 07/2006				Ducato 04/2006 to 05/2014								Ducato since 05/2014
									Talento 03/89 to 07/90		Talento 07/90 to 03/94
	J5 09/1981 to 09/1990										J5 09/90 - 03/94			Boxer 03/1994 to 04/2002								Boxer 04/2002 to 04/2006				Boxer / Boxer Bison 04/2006 to 05/2014								Boxer / Boxer Bison since 05/2014
R.A.M.																																	ProMaster 2013 to 05/2014	ProMaster since 05/2014
				Express 01/1984 to 08/1990							Express 08/90 - 12/93

Web links

• Article The new Fiat Ducato: heir to a successful model from March 25, 2006 on duemotori.com
• Article Fiat plant SEVEL reaches mark of four million vehicles: Jubilee Fiat Ducato goes to Germany from September 23, 2010 on rheinneckaritalien.blog.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Sevel: FCA and Groupe PSA extend partnership until 2023. FCA , February 14, 2019, accessed April 5, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Toyota and PSA are striving for cooperation ( memento of the original from September 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ^ La Sevel in festa per il veicolo numero 5,000,000 , La Repubblica of March 27, 2015, accessed on March 6, 2019.
4. ↑ Six millionth Ducato transporter rolls off the production line at the Sevel plant at the Caravan Institute on October 1, 2018, accessed on April 7, 2019.

Coordinates: 42 ° 8 ′ 57 "  N , 14 ° 27 ′ 23"  E